TANK-Modern Dance Solo

Modern Dance Solo created in 2003 for "Separation Anxiety Interdisciplinary Collective". Music by the Sting Quartet, "Piggy"- Nine Inch Nails/Reznor

Conceptually this dance was based on the fascinating ability of humans to create amazingly intricate and delicate machines, who's purpose is to defend as well as attack and kill. It astounds me in so many ways; our creativity as humans is such a wonderful gift when it comes to the arts, sciences, etc... But this creativity combined with our ultimate need to conquer and dominate is deadly.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• modern
• dance
• solo
• tank
• lynda
• white
• peggy
• tulane
• stage
• theatre
• nine
• inch
• nails
• piggy

[PeggyTulane]

Take care when you are critiquing a dance that your comments are made with clarity of observation and not plain gut reaction, especially if you have "12 years of studying dance".

[meekachu]

and i also think that the story line can be quite confusing

[PeggyTulane]

Thank you for your comments. If you found a story line and it is confusing then that is your doing, not mine. This dance is an abstraction of one concept which I discuss in the sidebar.  It the "move" at 1:19 is downright nasty, then you should realize that is within the context of the entire dance and my intention (again within the abstraction of the entire dance) was to look "ugly and maybe even downright nasty".

[KillinMcMillan]

Very good dancing and great concept. The only thing that threw me off was the costume though.

[PeggyTulane]

Yeah, the costume has gone through many a change. This was the first experiment, I wanted something that represented camouflage but wasn't literal. Didn't quite work.

[Joeltz]

wat was ur inspiration for this dance....are u the choreographer (dancer in video)???? I would like

[PeggyTulane]

Conceptually this dance was based on the fascinating ability of humans to create amazingly intricate and delicate machines, who's purpose is to defend as well as attack and kill. It astounds me in so many ways; our creativity as humans is such a wonderful gift when it comes to the arts, sciences, etc... But this creativity combined with our ultimate need to conquer and dominate is deadly.

[msJimiBadu]

whats this song called?

[opiumscentmusic]

Beautiful!

I think you may want to check out a dance contest on Talenthouse[dot]com to win a scholarship to Paul Taylor's Dance Academy! All you need to do is submit a 90 second youtube URL.

I hope you give it a try! Good luck!

[lolabirdlola]

I love your creativity and your music choices:D

[nannaew]

absolutely beautiful. the muscle control looks quite perfect, and this is a very good concept

[gumbionics]

I don't know if you'll ever see this but I wanted to leave another comment (the last one was over two years ago!).

The clarity of the work is definitely there along with great intention. The only thing I really wanted was for your to take more time with some of the cautious steps you take at various points like around 3:56. That's more of a personal request than a hard nosed critical one but it would breed even more clarity in the idea of hesitation and the unknown.

Truly spectacular though.

[bugsie121]

The choreography is interesting... a little bit slow, though. I think she is a good dancer but she doesn't need that kind of costume.

[fabiooliveira73]

simply my favorite modern dance video

[glueisntedible]

@Moderndancer16 I don't think this would be labeled as contemporary. This is more modern and uses techniques brought forth by the Graham technique (body angles, emotion, contraction, rigidness etc.). I bet you that Moderndancer16 doesn't even know what real modern dance is...the dance form that paved way for contemporary as we know it today (think sytycd). This dance is very purely modern that we don't see much anymore since contemporary with all its jumps, turns and tricks became popular.

[glueisntedible]

@Moderndancer16 I don't think this would be labeled as contemporary. This is more modern and uses techniques brought forth by the Graham technique (body angles, emotion, contraction, rigidness etc.). I bet you that Moderndancer16 doesn't even know what real modern dance is...the dance form that paved way for contemporary as we know it today (think sytycd). This dance is very purely modern that we don't see much anymore...since contemporary with all its fancy jumps, turns and tricks took over.